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The incident
 On the night of 9th January (i.e. 1.00 am Tuesday 10 January 2006)
six or seven persons
wearing black balaclava shone torch lights into the home of
Rajivmohan while all the
occupants of the house were asleep. The invaders knocked on all the
windows around
their home and asked them to open the door for checking. Occupants
got up, switched on
the lights, and opened the door. The persons in balclava grabbed
young Rajeevmohan.
Rajeevmohan’s mother started to scream. The men in balclava put a
gun to her throat and
threatened her not to shout. They told the occupants to remain in
one room and switch all
the lights off. The men in balaclava spoke to the occupants in good
Tamil indicating they
were Tamil speaking. The two gates to the house were shut and
padlocked. The men
therefore entered the premises of the house by jumping over the
fence. Once they
grabbed young Rajeevmohan they asked an older occupant of the house
to open the gate.
When the occupant was locating the keys, the men in balaclava
slapped him on the face
for taking long to open the gate.
Once the abductors left through the gate with Rajeevmohan, about 25
Sri Lankan army
men shouting in Sinhala who have surrounded the house until then
also ran out and got
in their vehicles. There was one white van and two army vehicles in
which the Sri
Lankan army soldiers and the men in balaclava left with Rajeevmohan.
Elavalai police station is only 100 metres from their home and the
street was well lit.
Family ran to the police station to lay complaint. They then went to
the SLMM office
and also the Jaffna branch of the Sri Lanka Human Rights Commission
and laid
complaints. They have also laid a complaint in our office.
Rajeevmohan’s Details:
Name: Balakrishnan Rajeevmohan
Age: 21 years.
DOB 3 March 1985
Address: College Road (Kalluri Road), Elavalai, Jaffna
Rajeevmohan was an old student of St Henry’s college in Elavalai. He
worked in the city of Doha in Qatar for 20 months and returned only
four months ago back to Jaffna. He was very depressed and unhappy
that he was not able
to earn enough money while in Doha although his parents send him
there at some
expense to earn money.
Distraught mother told NESOHR that he is a very soft boy who had no
involvement in
any outside activities.
There are good reasons for the family’s fear. Various reports in the
local media have
stated that several people who were taken away like this from their
homes over the last
two months have disappeared.
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